Facilities & Maintenance Apprentice

Build real, hands‑on skills from day one. You’ll learn how to maintain our site, support repairs, and operate engineering machinery while working alongside experienced professionals. This is a varied, active role with plenty of training, genuine responsibility and a clear path into a long‑term career.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with general maintenance and site upkeep
• Supporting planned preventative maintenance (PPM) activities
• Helping with repairs, inspections, and basic facilities work
• Assisting with compliance checks and maintenance record keeping
• Supporting grounds maintenance (e.g. paving, fencing, drainage)
• Learning to operate engineering machinery (e.g. press machines)
• Working safely in both workshop and outdoor environments

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Requirements

Training provider SBC TRAINING LIMITED

Training course Property maintenance operative (level 2)

What you'll learn

• Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
• Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
• Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
• Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
• Make safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
• Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
• Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
• Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
• Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
• Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
• Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
• Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
• Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
• Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
• Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
• Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
• Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
• Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
• Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
• Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
• Escalate issues beyond their level of competence and authority.

Desirable qualifications GCSE in:

• English (grade 4)
• Mathematics (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Team working
• Physical fitness
• Practical
• Reliable

Other requirements

• The role involves physical work, including lifting and working outdoors.

Benefits

• Potential for a permanent role on completion.

About Border Holdings (Britpart)

Border Holdings (Britpart) is the leading independent wholesaler of parts and accessories for Land Rover vehicles, supplying in excess of 1,000 customers worldwide from government agencies to trade outlets. The name 'Britpart' is synonymous with quality parts for Land Rovers and the company has earned a truly enviable reputation around the globe. For over the past 35 years, Land Rover enthusiasts the world over have come to identify Britpart as a brand to be trusted. Britpart prides itself in offering competitive prices for Land Rover parts and accessories. Our highly experienced purchasing teams ensure that price and quality are balanced to provide our customers with the best options.

https://www.britpart.com/

Application Process

Closes in 10 days (Monday 11 May 2026 at 11:59pm)

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The contact for this apprenticeship is: SBC TRAINING LIMITED Colin Preece colin.preece@sbc-training.co.uk 01743454810

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000022074.

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